Amie with an ‘i.e.’ is not checking Bluesky right now
Public Historian, Librarian, TCAF Director
Former NYorker🗽Current Canadian 🇨🇦
she/her // opinions all me
Writing my PhD on comic book censorship
Probably drinking coffee ☕️ and rewatching #SlowHorses
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- True for last year and especially true for this year to come.
- I’m not not checking Bluesky regularly but thought I would pop back in to say 👋 Also - Montréal is pretty even in the snow ❄️. Also there are churches everywhere.
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- Hi all - a heads up I will be pretty quiet on here for the next little while as I work on my PhD. Pls text, email or Signal - for all things @torontocomics.bsky.social please send an email to contact@torontocomics.com with me cc’ed. In the meantime, here’s a picture of me & velvet hippo Ziggy
- Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...
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- It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
- Well put SVA “Art illuminates dark times”
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- You have precisely 24 HOURS LEFT to send in your most dazzling, preposterous, stately and/or transcendent "I Registered to Vote for Zohran" sticker designs to zohranfornyc.com/stickittotheman
- We want YOU to help us register thousands of New Yorkers to vote by redesigning the iconic I VOTED sticker. But you need to move fast. Submit your design by Friday at 6pm - and get ready to pick a winner this weekend. zohranfornyc.com/stickittotheman
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- This might be the worst timeline - and there’s also the first new episode of #SlowHorses s05 to watch - including this delight of a scene 🎬 with the #simplyirresistable and ever ridiculous #RoddyHo
- Comics and social protest have a long history that now includes #OnePiece #comics #manga #publichistory www.cbc.ca/news/world/o...
- Other big #ottawa news - walks to fight existential dread continue…
- Big plans for tomorrow - me and other public historians from @cupublichistory.bsky.social will be visiting the oldest stone structure in #Ottawa for a special #PublicHistory tour at Bytown Museum. #PhDlife is wonderfully 🤓
- "Situations that once were opportunities for connection have become solitary pursuits..." "...reliance on AI deprives us of relationships and opportunities for reflection." A lot of good reflections in this article; with thanks to @noethematt.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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- Yes, I'll be at #NYCC with @libcomix.bsky.social! If you can - come volunteer with us!
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- This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
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- This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
- "No right was deemed by the fathers of the government more sacred than the right of speech. It was in their eyes, as in the eyes of all thoughtful men, the great moral renovator of society and government." ― Frederick Douglass, activist and author
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- IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
- Good night, and good luck
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- WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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- When the week feels like this…and it’s only Tuesday
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- A historical short on #NellieBly filmed on Roosevelt Island and narrated by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ….? Yes please! My feed needed this.
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- A needed spark of awesome in today’s mail - thank you @explodingarrow.bsky.social and the #Comics Courier (And yes it takes forever to mail stuff to Canada 🇨🇦) ko-fi.com/thecomicscou... Also best headline for the now, “Young Romance and the Fight Against Fascism”
- #Comics and us sharing our stories save lives. Removing books from the shelf is erasure and #censorship. 68% of Albertans believe decisions about what’s age-appropriate should be made by librarians, teachers, and schools - not administrations. Let’s fight back (cc: @torontocomics.bsky.social)
- Comics are under attack in Canada. We cannot stay silent. Read and share TCAF’s statement on censorship in Alberta’s public schools, then join us in taking action! www.torontocomics.com/post/comics-...
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- As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder. Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow. Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
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- A lot of today was stressful but I did get to catch up with this delightful human being in an epic Toronto diner (cc: @thescottmacd.bsky.social)
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- Meanwhile in Alberta… If you didn’t see - #comics are under attack in #Alberta: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #comicbooks #graphicnovels #censorship #libcomix #intellectualfreedom
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- And the #banning of #comicbooks in Alberta under the auspices of ‘protecting the children’ is even older - my MA research focused on Alberta’s ‘forgotten’ censor - the AB Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications and their anti-comics campaign from 1954-1976 carleton.ca/ccph/wp-cont...
- Reminder: please VOTE by 11:59pm PT tonight using the #SXSW #panelpicker to vote for our @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social panels
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My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...- My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
